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Originally Posted by troutman
The incident, Obama said, shows "how race remains a factor in this society."
That does not mean that he thinks THIS incident was racially motivated (again, he said he did not know that), only that the controversey surrounding this incident shows race remains a factor in society.
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Controversy that he helped create by getting involved.
I'm not going to argue about this.....to me, Obama is using this incident as a pedestal to preach to the world that racism is still an issue in the US, and that is wrong. Why? Even if racism is still a problem(it is)....that doesn't mean that this incident was racially motivated. Secondly, what if tomorrow evidence comes out and proves Gates was acting like a prick by playing the racist card. Does that mean Obama will call his buddy Gates 'stupid' for HIS actions? Of course not. He'll just ignore the issue.
Pretty stupid to use it as a talking point for racial problems when you don't even know all the facts. And pretty stupid to call the cops 'stupid' when you don't even know what happened.